I have been a full-time artist since 2002, when I left behind a career in corporate marketing to live in Sonoma County (north of San Francisco) and follow my lifelong passion for painting, drawing and fiber arts. I have studied with San Francisco and North Bay Area painters Michael Loffredo, Sandra Speidel, Maurice Lapp, Lisa Beerntsen, Philip Buller, Robert Dvorak, and Don Feasel.

During the 1960s when I was a student at the University of Bordeaux in France, I began a lifelong exploration and study of the work of painters such as Toulouse Lautrec, Denis, Vuillard, Degas, Bonnard, Matisse. In addition to painting, in 2007 I began re-visiting my earlier interest in fiber arts and am now also creating multimedia pieces that incorporate clay, wire, and fibers that I have spun, woven and/or needle-felted.

Since 2004 I have participated in Art @ the Source, West Sonoma County’s open studio program that takes place the two weekends of June every year. For these four days from 10-5 the public is invited to visit my art barn/studio at 16120 Watson Road, Guerneville, CA. Catalogs and maps for the 120+ participating artists can be found at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts

Partial list of juried and/or invitational exhibitions and other representations: